Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [1]
Changes later this week
The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XXinstead of2010-12for dates with a month but no days. This is because2010-12could be confused with2010-2012instead ofDecember 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [2]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).
Future changes
- PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database
JOINSwill no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.
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19:39, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #462
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past NIH Virtual Workshop on InChI (Q106114408): "InChI and InChIKey in Wikidata and Scholia", https://zenodo.org/record/4633789
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- April 5-11: Climate Lexeme Week
- April 7: Data import for Lexemes: how to add a lot of content in your language
- April 8: Documentation Q&A
- April 8: Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data
- April 10: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Cliff Landis (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library) on “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” April 6th.[3]
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook, April 10
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #57, April 11
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-04-12 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws (English), supported by WikiCite, April 13
- Upcoming: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas / shape expressions, April 19
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Aplicativos de metadados (Portuguese), on metadata apps, April 29
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages "fostering development of technology for the languages of Africa with a Wikidata-derived resource of lists of 1.9M names across 28 African languages".
- Videos
- SPARQL queries around lexemes, words, lexicography (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
- Editing lexemes on Wikidata (in Swedish) by Ainali - YouTube
- WikiActivate sessions introduction to Wikidata - YouTube 1, 2
- LIVE Wikidata editing #38 - YouTube, Facebook
- Launch of Climate Lexeme Week (Youtube, Facebook)
- Tool of the week
- QRank is a tool providing a rank for Wikidata entities based on page view statistics from several Wikimedia projects.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The final version of the Wikibase Yearly Summary 2020 has been published.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports additional Breton templates (Source)
- User:Nikki/LexemeAddIPA.js userscript adds a link in the header for forms on lexeme pages which opens a dialog for adding IPA statements to forms that do not have any yet.
- LexSAOB adds Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) identifiers to Swedish lexemes in Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Ukrainian national romanization, law digest, Unicode character name, trade union membership rate, placeholder text element ID
- External identifiers: Place Names NI ID, FranceArchives agent ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, ODLIS ID, Sociologická encyklopedie ID, BMZ lemma ID, FindeB lemma ID, Lexer lemma ID, LexerN lemma ID, Enslaved place ID, The Mountaineers Routes & Places ID, Adelung lemma ID, DWB lemma ID, DWB2 lemma ID, GWB lemma ID, Meyers lemma ID, RDWB1 lemma ID, Wander lemma ID, Česká divadelní encyklopedie ID, Tschechische Theaterenzyklopädie ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index ID, Louvre Museum ARK ID, Verified Handles VHID, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Armenian Book ID, athletics.lv athlete ID, Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ID, Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ID, GameSpot developer ID, Musée national de la Marine ID, OFDb person ID, NMRShiftDB structure ID, Tacoma Local History & Biography Index ID, Megale Kypriake Enkyklopaideia ID, Washington Flora Checklist ID, American University of Beirut's Libraries title ID, USCG MIC, Arca author ID, BLPL author ID, Viasona ID, ÖCV Biolex ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: specific part, personal library at, departement, antipode, MovieMeter person ID, bicycle
- External identifiers: CNN contributor ID, Our Campaigns race ID, Proveana ID, Storybook ID, Wissens-Aggregator Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit (WIAG) ID, National Association of Teachers of Singing member ID, The World Factbook country ID, SonyLIV show ID, EGID, Letecká badatelna accident ID, Camptocamp ID, National Inventory of Dams ID, PeakVisor ID, PeakVisor range ID, PeakVisor area ID, PeakVisor park ID, Urban Archive ID, bridgesport.ru player ID, Catalogue of the General State Archives ID, Podchaser Creator Id, La Réunion des Livres ID, vindskyddskartan.se ID, naturkartan.se ID, ANPI place numeric ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Virginia House of Delegates ID, Generals of World War II ID, DCinemaToday Organization ID, Swedish Bioguiden Movie Theater ID, bio.se Movie Theater ID, Encyclopedia of Jewish Women ID, Terras Indígenas ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Europalexikon ID, Politiklexikon ID, Encyklopedie antropologie ID
- Query examples:
- interwiki prefixes without corresponding Wikidata property by 2019 linkcount (some filtered) (source)
- Women whose article on English Wikipedia has the featured article badge (source)
- Map of males and females after which streets are named (Leiden, NL) (source)
- Map of birthplaces of trans women and men with articles in the Basque Wikipedia (source)
- Map of institutions where UNR faculty got their academic degrees (source)
- Map of location of sense usage (P6084) by language
- Botanists with image of signature and optional IPNI author ID (source)
- Subclasses of musical instrument with the most individual instances (source, result starts with: bell, organ)
- list of U.S. state songs, anthems, marches, hymns, cantatas, or missing (source)
- Adjacency map of Ordnance Survey Old Series preparatory drawings (source)
- Ordinals in all languages/notations: 0th to 100th (source)
- locked-room mysteries (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- We continued to make improvements to the Query builder. We worked on adding a footer to the Query Builder (phab:T268643) and showing all relevant columns in the query result (phab:T277646) as well as querying for dates (phab:T272697)
- Fixed a bug where Item pages scrolls back to "In more languages" block after every change of DOM (phab:T277999, being deployed to Wikidata later this week)
- Continued working on a new grafana graph to track editor numbers split by namespace (phab:T275999)
- Finished a small tool to get the ORES quality score for a list of Items. Waiting for deployment to toolforge for broader use now.
- Defined remaining work for redirect sitelink exceptions (phab:T278962)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
"Original" Research
It's IN the episode. As described in the paragraph, you can see the Roadblock clue they're holding and easily, visibly see them open the clue in a location besides the dam. This is something we've been doing for years on the TAR pages without any issue. 2604:3D08:7480:4B00:61D4:AF5C:21C3:9FC1 (talk) 08:24, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, but it wasn't openly mentioned and I don't think anyone has brought up the issue before. I've also seen the roadblock clue but have refrained from adding it per WP:NOR. SHB2000 (talk) 08:26, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- There is a roadblock clue visible in the episode. A roadblock took place. You can see it with your human eyeballs. That's not original research, it's within the subject of the article itself. Or do we have to cite each and every individual episode to keep it from being original research. Stop removing correct information. 2604:3D08:7480:4B00:61D4:AF5C:21C3:9FC1 (talk) 08:32, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- Has it been published on one of the contestants insta or facebook page, if so, then leave it but this is
- There is a roadblock clue visible in the episode. A roadblock took place. You can see it with your human eyeballs. That's not original research, it's within the subject of the article itself. Or do we have to cite each and every individual episode to keep it from being original research. Stop removing correct information. 2604:3D08:7480:4B00:61D4:AF5C:21C3:9FC1 (talk) 08:32, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- 1. You seeing it
- 2. You adding it based on what you saw and not what someone else saw and you added what you saw onto enwiki.
- It may be correct but we don't allow original research here on enwiki.
- SHB2000 (talk) 08:36, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- That's ridiculous. How does anyone add any information about tv shows then? All information from tv shows comes from us, the viewers, seeing it. Also, not to mention, this is the big problem with Wikipedia. Someone comes by and quotes some regulation that allows them to remove a bunch of information and that's just that. If you try to refute it (like here, I disagree with your assertion that this is OR), then it usually just ends up you get accused of edit warring and are shut down. I hate this "I'm a single person and I'm right to change everything" mentality that goes on. Whatever, obviously I'm not going to be able to change your mind. If you're content with having Wikipedia be inaccurate and incomplete, then I hope you're proud of yourself. 2604:3D08:7480:4B00:61D4:AF5C:21C3:9FC1 (talk) 08:43, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- Please be civil SHB2000 (talk) 08:45, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- And also back to the topic, it is possible to write about TV shows, for example, I'll use TAR, did Beau Ryan announce it, if then yes add it if not do the following:
1. Is it on one of the contestants insta/facebook page? If yes, then add it, it is not original research. If no, then leave it as we at enwiki want to write what is publically known and not something that they didn't announce. ~
SHB2000 (talk) 08:50, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
And I hope you choose not to attack me on external links (i.e. my insta page). SHB2000 (talk) 08:54, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- I'm speechless. You're being completely ridiculous. Where did this insta page stuff even come from? Why would I stalk you on your Instagram page, what the hell kind of accusation is that? I didn't even attack you in any way, what I said was incredibly tame compared to stuff I've seen elsewhere and was directed at the general atmosphere of Wikipedia and its edit culture, where rules more often than not serve to remove information rather than add it. But if you're asking me not to attack you on instagram (again, what the hell) then I don't even know where to begin with that one. We're done here. Just leave the information off, I don't care anymore. 2604:3D08:7480:4B00:61D4:AF5C:21C3:9FC1 (talk) 09:19, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- Regardless, this will be my last edit on wikipedia. SHB2000 (talk) 09:34, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- Oh and by the way, the insta attack has come from User:Fordaona via email and through Insta. There's another user on wikivoyage also took a litter bin dispute to the wv facebook page and attacked an editor there. It's why I get stuff like this. SHB2000 (talk) 09:46, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #463
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Is it worth to import labels from interlanguage links of other wikipedia projects to wikidata
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII - Gathering and modelling of metadata pertaining to all Brazilian laws. April 13, 14-18 (UTC-3). register
- Upcoming: closing of d:Wikidata:Events/30 lexic-o-days 2021, April 14. If you participated in the contribution month, please drop a line about your work on the outcomes page.
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #40 - YouTube, Facebook, April 17
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #58, April 18
- Upcoming: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas / shape expressions, April 19
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook
- Data imports for Wikidata Lexemes (panel discussion 30 Lexicodays) (Youtube, Commons)
- Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data (30 Lexicodays) (Youtube, Commons)
- Wiki2Prop: A Multi-Modal Approach for Predicting Wikidata Properties from Wikipedia - YouTube
- Wiki World Heritage User Group: Capacity Building Wikidata Training - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- EditSum, a user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A simple portal of women that study metabolomics powered by Wikidata
- Do you have any cool Wikidata tips and tricks that you use? Share them with everyone on Twitter under the hashtag #WikidataTips
- Entitree is a graph generator that can display family trees, but also other graphs like taxa or company subsidiaries.
- Royal Trees, powered by Wikidata is an interactive website that shows royal family trees, for all royal families worldwide. See an example of Philip Duke of Edinburgh.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: personal library at
- External identifiers: ScoreStorybook company ID, Camptocamp ID, Biblio.com ID, CNN contributor ID, IFVPF ID, Musikasten ID, OregonFlora taxon ID, Demozoo group ID, Image Comics creator ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Commons-Kategorie für Portraits, pH, taxonomic treatment, Degrees day, NBM identifier, size of unit under command, Archdiocese of Liverpool identifier
- External identifiers: HistoryLink essay number, National Provider Identifier, Singers.com ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Wikiroute ID, ID v Databázi periodického tisku pro veřejnost, GLEI RAL, OpenCorporates register id, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, hPSCreg ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID, Trap Danmark ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started research and collecting material for the work on improvements to the Lexeme UI and prepared the first interviews
- Finishing up the work on the first version of the Query Builder. We still need to get the security review before we can deploy it properly. Current state can be tested on the test system.
- Finalized the dashboard to see the number of (active/very active) editors split by namespace. See the graphs at the bottom of this dashboard.
- Continued working on the remaining pieces needed to fully support editing statements on Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199896)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #464
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: Wikidata - HackaLOD Online sessions (replay in Dutch)
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, April 20 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alexandra Wong on experiences and workflows for linking archival collections to Wikidata. There will also be a recap of insights from the recent Canadian archivists’ panel on Wikidata by the University and College Archives Special Interest Section (UCASIS) of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). Agenda, April 20
- Upcoming: Wikipedia Weekley Network - Biodiversity edition: iNaturalist place ID YouTube, Facebook, April 23
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook, April 24
- Upcoming: 25 April - WikidataDays Sessions II, an online editing session dedicated to democracy and political parties, coinciding with the celebration of Freedom Day.
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #59, April 25
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- Structured Data on Commons explained, with Andrew Lih, John Cummings and Pharos (Youtube)
- Discovering history's notable people (audio). Using Wikidata and Wikipedia as the backbone, this project "construct[s] a new dataset of more than seven million notable individuals across recorded human history".
- LIVE Wikidata editing #40 - YouTube, Facebook
- Adding information through EntitySchemas to Wikidata Andra Waagmeester and Jose Labra
- SPARQL query requests around lexicography mapping] by VIGNERON - YouTube
- Fast Linking of Mathematical Wikidata Entities in Wikipedia Articles Using Annotation Recommendation - YouTube
- Wiki2Prop: A Multimodal Approach for Predicting Wikidata Properties from Wikipedia - YouTube
- Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws - YouTube
- Librarians and Wikidata. A short tour - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:So9q/Gadget-CreateNewEntity.js is a userscript to add a "create new item" link in the dropdown menu for when you want to * add an item to a property, but the item does not exist. (recently modified to support lexemes).
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release
- Another history of Denelezh
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms no longer automatically redirects you to login, so you can now use edit mode to view the forms of a lexeme in the “right” order. Here is an example.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: pH value, introduced on, ALA-LC romanization for Ukrainian
- External identifiers: Generals of World War II ID, La Réunion des Livres ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija concept ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija person ID, Encyclopedia of Jewish Women ID, Urban Archive ID, GCD publisher ID, Letecká badatelna accident ID, Proveana ID, KATOTTH ID, La Fenice Theatre in Venice person ID, Politiklexikon ID, Europalexikon ID, National Inventory of Dams ID, Wissens-Aggregator Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit ID, Indigenous Lands in Brazil ID, Virginia House of Delegates ID, CAOI person ID, Encyklopedie antropologie ID, Our Campaigns race ID, Olympedia affiliations ID, ANPI place numeric ID, National Provider Identifier, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Brapci author ID, Wikiroute ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Periodical ID in a database of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Rekhta author ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, DzygaMDB film ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: translator name string, scope note, LIMA media artist ID, CofE archives ID, CofE archives name ID, CofE archives place ID, has artist file in, term in higher taxon, accessibility statement URL, Hotel des Causses
- External identifiers: Dialnet thesis ID, IAU member ID, MileSplit ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Malaysian school code, synonymer.se Swedish synonym ID, Prague City Gallery inventory number in Art for the City, Yukon Archives authority record ID, Cimiterium ID, Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID, HERO-tunniste, Smithsonian Ark ID, Oregon Poetic Voices poet ID, J! Archive player ID, Gender Glossar ID, Beirut Arab University's Libraries Title ID, music austria ID, identifiant Localisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant utilisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant représentation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Cyprus
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Finished work on the support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via the API (phab:T199896)
- Got all feature work done on the first version of the Query Builder. It is now awaiting security review.
- Statements linking to deleted Lexemes now indicate this similar to statements linking to deleted Items (phab:T277089)
- Fixing a bug with misaligned grammatical features after an OOUI update (phab:T278522)
- Finished work on the small tools to get the number of constraints violations and ORES scores for a list of Items. Will publish soon.
- Did interviews with a few people about how they work around lexicographical data
- Selected focus languages for continued work on lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia together with Abstract Wikipedia team. The selected ones are Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam and Dagbani. You can read more about it in the Abstract Wikipedia newsletter.
- Gave input to WMF search platform team for a survey draft around the query service in order to better understand how to move forward with improvements
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [4][5]
- If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [6][7][8]
- Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use
mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles')to go back to how they looked before. [9] - The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
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16:48, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
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The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: The Trump Organization's paid editors
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
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The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
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Wikidata weekly summary #465
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 28th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
- Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
- Upcoming: OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
- COSCUP 2021 CFP is now open
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 1
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #60, May 2
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- User:Lucas Werkmeister/P642 considered harmful
- New extension: Wikibase EDTF by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
- Videos
- OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Meetup #27 - Wikidata Lexeme Teaching - LBRY, Odysee
- (Workshop) Introduction to Wikidata by Lucie Aimée Kaffee
- Graphic Possibilities Comics Wikidata Tutorial
- SPARQL tutorial (in Portuguese)
- An Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam)
- Wikidata tutorials in Albanian (1, 2, 3, 4)
- SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French)
- (Workshop) #1Lib1Ref on Wikidata
- Adding an article to Wikidata by DOI (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook
- Working with Zotero on WiKidata (in Italian) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:So9q/AddNewLexemeMenu.js is a userscript that adds a section to the sidebar with links for creating new lexemes.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMDE built two tools to help editors get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. Try them out and let us know what you think.
- Collaborative translation of Cita is now available on translatewiki.net. Cita is a Wikidata addon that adds citations metadata support to Zotero, using cites work (P2860) information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data. Cita is currently under development with a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and presentation workshops will be held on May 27th (Spanish) and May 31st (English). More info and pre-registration here.
- RaiseWikibase is a tool for speeding up multilingual knowledge graph construction with Wikibase. Among other features, it can be utilized to create a mini Wikibase instance with Wikidata properties in a few minutes.
- SPARQL-Blockly is a tool to visualise and construct SPARQL queries as visual blocks (Wikidata example)
- Wikibase/FAQ is a living document of a list of frequently asked questions about Wikibase. Community members are welcome to contribute to it.
- RIP Liz Marley
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ALA-LC romanization for Ukrainian
- External identifiers: ANPI place numeric ID, National Provider Identifier, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Brapci author ID, Wikiroute ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Periodical ID in a database of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Rekhta author ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, DzygaMDB film ID, Bioguiden movie theater ID, MovieMeter person ID, Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú ID, SonyLIV show ID, Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID, IAU member ID, LIMA media artist ID, Singers.com ID, HistoryLink essay number, inventory number of a work of art in the Art for the City database, Cimiterium ID, Smithsonian Ark ID, Oregon Poetic Voices poet ID, Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID, Malaysian school code, Trap Danmark ID, Finna ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Mitte ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg ID, Catalogue of the General State Archives ID, CofE archives ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: accessibility statement URL, symbol represents, main upper course, Political Graveyard geography ID, diel cycle, Taxon holotype location, Smithsonian trinomial prefix, Digital Atlas of Idaho taxon ID, hardware threading standard
- External identifiers: music austria ID, identifiant Localisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant utilisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant représentation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, Forbes (Russia) profile ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Digital DISCI ID, The Draft Review ID 2, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, IUCN Green List ID, Gardens of the Roman Empire ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation ID, UNITER Award person ID, ID právnické osoby vedené Ministerstvem kultury ČR, CEV Team-ID, Anime Filler List show id, CEV Coach-ID, memento.wien person ID, MyBIS ID, Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID, am.hayazg.info ID, The Criterion Collection film ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, Gopo Award ID, Director Identification Number, TheTVDB character ID, JECFA number, Norges Fotballforbund klubb ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Parliament of Romania person ID, Apple TV movie ID
- Query examples:
- Timeline of road vehicles crashing into Montague Street Bridge, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Coal-fired power plants in Germany (Source)
- Average lifespan by profession (Select the desired columns and get labels) (Source)
- The number of natural disasters in various countries since 1970 (Source)
- Heads of states/governments whose cause of death was a military casualty (Source)
- List of French stations sorted by number of tracks (Source)
- Relationship of the different Corona viruses (Source)
- Map of about one third of the ancient trees in Bulgaria (Source)
- Lexemes without statements or senses by language
- Newest database reports: Doctor Who companions
- Newest properties:
- Development
- wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (phab:T199896)
- We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (phab:T238831)
- Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (phab:T238831)
- Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (phab:T225883)
- Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (phab:T214362)
- Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
- Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Take a list of cities in your country, add ((Item documentation)) in the talk page and have fun looking at people born in this place ordered by number of sitelinks. You may have some surprises!
- Help write the next summary!
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Recent changes
- Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [10][11][12]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).
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21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)